Articles by Regional Reporter, Appalachia Katie Myers
Katie Myers reports on climate change in Appalachia through a partnership between Grist and Blue Ridge Public Radio in western North Carolina. She previously served as a climate solutions fellow at Grist, and as an economic transition reporter in eastern Kentucky with the Ohio Valley ReSource and WMMT 88.7 FM. Her freelance work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and the New Republic, among others, and she has completed media fellowships with the Society for Environmental Journalists, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, America Amplified, and the Solutions Journalism Network.
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How the shift to electric vehicles is fueling the UAW strike
"The EV transition must be a just transition that ensures auto workers have a place in the new economy.”
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The fight for worker safety protection heats up at the Phoenix airport
People laboring in brutal temperatures want OSHA to investigate conditions that leave them vulnerable to heat illness and exhaustion.
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Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperature at which photosynthesis stops
Heat is just one of many stressors for the world’s beleaguered Amazon.
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Virginia is bailing on a carbon cap-and-invest program. Activists say that might be illegal.
If the state ditches the program, millions of dollars in climate resilience funding could be lost.
